1st Edition

Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies

By Elie Kedourie Copyright 1974
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 2005. This book constitutes the continuation and complement of a work, The Chatham House Version and Other Middle-Eastern Studies, published in 1970. Both works are concerned with certain themes prominent in recent middle-eastern history, namely the influence of great-power, and particularly British policies in the region; the character of middle-eastern, and particularly Arab, politics and political thought during the last hundred years or so; and the fate of so-called minorities, and particularly the Jews of the Arab world, caught as they were in the cross-fire of antagonistic ideologies and of international conflicts.

    Chapter 1 The Fate of Constitutionalism in the Middle East; Chapter 2 Political Part ies in the Arab World; Chapter 3 The American University of Beirut; Chapter 4 The Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1860–1960; Chapter 5 The Death of Adib Ishaq; Chapter 6 Mr. Memmi on Jewishness and the Jews; Chapter 7 The Politics of Political Literature; Chapter 8 The Impact of the Young Turk Revolution on the Arabic-speaking Provinces of the Ottoman Empire; Chapter 9 Arabs Ancient and Modern; Chapter 10 The Apprentice Sorcerers; Chapter 11 Arabic Political Memoirs; Chapter 12 Anti-Marxism in Egypt; Chapter 13 The Arab-Israeli Conflict; Chapter 14 Sir Hugh Foot’s Memoirs; Chapter 15 Sir Mark Sykes and Palestine 1915–16; Chapter 16 Young Turks, Freemasons and Jews; Chapter 17 The Jews of Baghdad in 1910; Chapter 18 Wavell and Iraq, April–May 1941; Chapter 19 The Sack of Basra and the Farhud in Baghdad;

    Biography

    Elie Kedourie Professor of Politics London School of Economics and Political Science